Word: minimall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some 3,000 supervisors and 2,000 nonstriking or nonunion controllers were manning the towers and radar centers that monitor U.S. air flights. A backup force of some 500 military controllers, out of an available pool of 10,000, rushed to major air centers. They began studying civilian control procedures...
On the positive side, Coddington said Harvard and other schools had won only minimal victories in creating certain incentives for industrial support of campus research, which he said "will not stimulate very much new investment.
The President's attack was designed to blunt mounting criticism from House Democrats that the Administration's tax proposals favor the wealthy. Reagan wants to reduce taxes 25% over three years for all income groups, which would return the most tax dollars to those who pay the most...
Overcrowding has led to a batch of protest lawsuits by prisoners and prison-reform groups. Judges are increasingly sympathetic to the argument that the conditions add up to cruel and unusual punishment, prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. Nine entire state prison systems- are under court orders to...
Then difficulties begin in earnest. Although their children slip easily into the new, primitive surroundings, the parents find it hard to adjust to the "habitation of mud houses." Food is scarce, sanitation minimal, and disease threatens with every drink from the nearby river. They fear betrayal. July can apparently keep...